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April 4, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, April 10, 2011 from 2-5 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 5 PM on Sunday at the funeral home, immediately following the visiting hours.
Burial will be private.
Stephen J. Wolff, Jr., age 81 of Wayne, died peacefully on Monday, April 4, 2011 at the Mountainside Hospital in Montclair.
Stephen was born in Montclair and had moved to Wayne in 1959.
He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Biology in 1951 and the St. Louis School of Pharmacy with a degree in Pharmacy in 1958. He began his career as a chemist with Hoffman-LaRoche and retired from Givaudan in 1994.
Stephen was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. After joining in 1952, he was assigned to the USS Higbee during the Korean War and later served on the USS Thaddeus Parker as a Navigator and Executive Officer. He achieved the rank of Commander in 1966, the rank of Captain in the Naval Reserve in 1973, and retired honorably in 1989. He remained involved with the Navy League and was proud of his service with the Navy.
For more than thirty years, Stephen was involved with Protestant Community Centers, Inc. (PCCI) of Newark, NJ. He selflessly gave of himself in an effort to better the lives of those less fortunate. With a passion for cars, he restored a 1941 Packard and loved to enter it classic car shows. He also loved his model trains, steam locomotives and almost anything that had to do with the outdoors. He was a member of the Dartmouth Outdoor Club since attending college and as a matter of fact, he brought his wife Phoebe to one of the primitive Dartmouth cabins in the deep woods of New Hampshire for their honeymoon. She wasn’t nearly as enthusiastic about that as he was, but none the less they enjoyed a loving marriage of fifty five years together before her passing in 2007.
He was also involved with the Morris Canal Society, the Retiree’s Club of Givaudan, and the Society of Cosmetics International. Stephens ‘other love’ was his home on Culver’s Lake in Sussex County. This home has been in his family for generations and he would go there almost weekly, every chance he got. He liked to go sailing, canoeing, or just relax near the water.
Stephen is survived by his three loving children; Stephen W. and his wife Elsa of Morrison, CO, Christine Wolff of Aurora, CO, and Leslie Wolff and her husband Paul Fortney of Alpharetta, GA; one sister, Johanna Maloney of Elberta, AL, and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Phoebe in 2007.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to:
James A Baker Institute For Animal Health
Mail your gift, with a check payable to Cornell University, to:Cornell University, Box 223623, Pittsburgh PA 15251-2623
or
American Indian College Fund, 8333 Greenwood Blvd., Denver, CO 80221
If you would like to send a private condolence directly to the family use this condolence section.
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, April 10, 2011 from 2-5 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 5 PM on Sunday at the funeral home, immediately following the visiting hours.
Burial will be private.
April 4, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, April 10, 2011 from 2-5 PM. Funeral Services will be held at 5 PM on Sunday at the funeral home, immediately following the visiting hours.
Burial will be private.
Stephen J. Wolff, Jr., age 81 of Wayne, died peacefully on Monday, April 4, 2011 at the Mountainside Hospital in Montclair.
Stephen was born in Montclair and had moved to Wayne in 1959.
He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in Biology in 1951 and the St. Louis School of Pharmacy with a degree in Pharmacy in 1958. He began his career as a chemist with Hoffman-LaRoche and retired from Givaudan in 1994.
Stephen was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. After joining in 1952, he was assigned to the USS Higbee during the Korean War and later served on the USS Thaddeus Parker as a Navigator and Executive Officer. He achieved the rank of Commander in 1966, the rank of Captain in the Naval Reserve in 1973, and retired honorably in 1989. He remained involved with the Navy League and was proud of his service with the Navy.
For more than thirty years, Stephen was involved with Protestant Community Centers, Inc. (PCCI) of Newark, NJ. He selflessly gave of himself in an effort to better the lives of those less fortunate. With a passion for cars, he restored a 1941 Packard and loved to enter it classic car shows. He also loved his model trains, steam locomotives and almost anything that had to do with the outdoors. He was a member of the Dartmouth Outdoor Club since attending college and as a matter of fact, he brought his wife Phoebe to one of the primitive Dartmouth cabins in the deep woods of New Hampshire for their honeymoon. She wasn’t nearly as enthusiastic about that as he was, but none the less they enjoyed a loving marriage of fifty five years together before her passing in 2007.
He was also involved with the Morris Canal Society, the Retiree’s Club of Givaudan, and the Society of Cosmetics International. Stephens ‘other love’ was his home on Culver’s Lake in Sussex County. This home has been in his family for generations and he would go there almost weekly, every chance he got. He liked to go sailing, canoeing, or just relax near the water.
Stephen is survived by his three loving children; Stephen W. and his wife Elsa of Morrison, CO, Christine Wolff of Aurora, CO, and Leslie Wolff and her husband Paul Fortney of Alpharetta, GA; one sister, Johanna Maloney of Elberta, AL, and six grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Phoebe in 2007.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to:
James A Baker Institute For Animal Health
Mail your gift, with a check payable to Cornell University, to:Cornell University, Box 223623, Pittsburgh PA 15251-2623
or
American Indian College Fund, 8333 Greenwood Blvd., Denver, CO 80221
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